I tried making a Pandaren monk. Got to the fourth quest and there was a crowd of about 50 pandaren all trying to click on a single quest item. After ten minutes of unsuccessful clicking, I decided that my beta testing of pandaren can wait
After the download process and login, I found myself standing in Stormwind. Unfortunately, I also found myself looking at the default Blizzard UI. It made me realize how much I have customized my own UI, and how difficult it will be to play
As soon as I said that I was in the beta, I had people asking me about preferred talents, and which features I planned to check out first. Interesting thing. I have no idea. I don’t even know what’s available. I have
Filed under: General, Mists of Pandaria expansion
Things are happening fast. On Monday Blizzard lifted the press NDA and a torrent of MoP information was released. Then by Wednesday it became clear that the beta servers were about to go online. Once I get into the MoP Beta I’m sure
I got my sixth toon to the level cap this weekend. I really had no desire to level through Outland, Northrend, and Cataclysm zones again. I did it because I needed one more toon to complete my set of tradeskills. Now I have these toons: 85
Having completed the Cluster Clutch quest, I was taken to another stealth-sap-distract run leading to a solo combat, much like the one we all did previously in Gilneas City at the start of the questline. The new quest is Blood of the Betrayer and it takes
As all rogues recall, Patch 4.3 was released in late November of 2011 with great fanfare. With the release of the patch, came the questline to get the legendary daggers. Every rogue worth his stealth did the opening steps of the questline in the
I got into the gold-making groove a bit late. It was only at the end of Wrath/start of Cata that I began trying to really ramp up my income. As such, my goals were modest. I was excited when I first broke 50,000 gold back at the end
I finally got around to transmogrifying my gear. I really wasn’t in a hurry to do this. I liked the Firelands/Dragon Soul gear and I didn’t feel a tremendous need to change its appearance. Still, I figured that there was probably
Dragon Soul is supposed to be nerfed starting this week. It will be a 5% reduction in boss damage and health, and that number will gradually increase. It doesn’t affect our attack power or abilities, so our damage output should stay
Am I just incredibly unlucky? I’ve run Dragon Soul now about 6-8 times in normal difficulty and a handful of times in LFR. That’s a total of 40-50 boss kills split between 10-man runs and 25-man runs. So far, I have gotten exactly three
In LFR, fighting Hagara… I have a lapse in concentration and the ice wall catches me from behind. I die. /facepalm AssjerkMcPallyPants spends the next few minutes berating me in raid chat. I don’t even know how he can
The (recent) past: I’ve been grinding along in game. No new posts recently because nothing interesting has happened since the fun little questline early on the path to the legendary daggers. For what its worth, I am just 1/3 of the way done
I was reading and posting in an online forum on a WoW-related topic. In the discussion, someone spilled the beans about the ending of the Dragon Soul raid and storyline. Another person said, “Dude, put SPOILER ALERT on that so we know
Since I’ve had trouble with Curse Client this week, its made me realize what a large number of add-ons I use. This is not intentional. Its just “add-on creep” – meaning that over my 6+ years of playing I have gradually added
Has anyone else been infected with a virus through Curse Client this week? I have 5 computers in my house, four with WoW installed. We ran Curse Client on two of them and got an update of the client. Almost immediately thereafter both computers
I made my way through the first steps of the legendary dagger quest over yesterday and today. I pickpocketed Hagara last night, paid the guy in Stormwind to charge the ring, and today I went to Ravenholdt and did my business there. I thought the
The Dragon Soul raid has arrived. Deathwing, the biggest and baddest foe we have fought, was defeated within hours of the patch going live. Does that mean that Dragon Soul is too easy? I don’t think so, personally. It seems pretty
One of the questions I have seen from other rogues (and that I asked myself) is… can you stealth through Dragon Soul to finish the first part of the legendary dagger questline? The answer… no. Here’s what you have to do to get
Its been over a month since I posted anything here. Its not that I went away or stopped playing. It was really two things… Demands on my real-life time were so great that I barely had time to play the game, and never has a moment to write
A lot of folks have been talking as if SWTOR is the impending WoW-killer (as if we hadn’t heard that before from Rift and Conan and LotR and especially from Warhammer). Has Blizzard set themselves up as their own killer with their Diablo III special
A lot of folks have been talking as if SWTOR is the impending WoW-killer (as if we hadn’t heard that before from Rift and Conan and LotR and especially from Warhammer). Has Blizzard set themselves up as their own killer with their Diablo III special
Opening ceremony and the big WoW announcement is, as expected, the next expansion. And, also as expected, its the Mists of Panderia, with Pandaren as a playable race. Immediately, a lot of players boo-hooed this as the death of the game and claimed
Opening ceremony and the big WoW announcement is, as expected, the next expansion. And, also as expected, its the Mists of Panderia, with Pandaren as a playable race. Immediately, a lot of players boo-hooed this as the death of the game and claimed
…and once again I am not going. But I am going to watch online. I think this is a make-or-break moment for WoW. They need to generate some excitement, because its getting a little old. This always happens late in the expansion
…and once again I am not going. But I am going to watch online. I think this is a make-or-break moment for WoW. They need to generate some excitement, because its getting a little old. This always happens late in the expansion
From the PTR Patch Notes (courtesy of MMO-Champion): North American realms (excluding Brazilian, Latin American, and Oceanic realms) no longer permit letters with accents in character or guild names. Existing character and guild names with special characters
From the PTR Patch Notes (courtesy of MMO-Champion): North American realms (excluding Brazilian, Latin American, and Oceanic realms) no longer permit letters with accents in character or guild names. Existing character and guild names with special characters
As the fallout from the nerfs trickles through the blogosphere, and I read about how trivial the content is now and how terrible it is that the nerf bat came so quickly, I am going to weigh in here on the side of support for Blizzard. These nerfs